Hypothesis The Purpose of this experiment was to evaluate how the various techniques a person can use to shoot a basketball at various distances and how it can affect the likely hood of making a basket. We predicted that a person was more likely to make it if they shot it over handed with some jump‚ so that the ball would have more force behind it. Procedure Step 1: Gather five willing participants and a good basketball. For this experiment we used five different people with average basketball skills
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Camera People: The Impact of Camera Phones on Modern Broadcasting Introduction The first televised news broadcast was from station WRGB in New York City in 1928 (Kassata‚1992). This started the beginning of regular news broadcast twice a day. Although only a handful of people had a television set to view the broadcast‚ however‚ the birth of another news source had begun other than the radio and newspaper. This type of news media outlet changed the way
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"Eats Shoots & Leaves‚" by Lynne Truss‚ is a small book containing both humor and the rules of English punctuation. The title of this book comes from a joke about a wildlife manual with poor punctuation that said a giant panda "eats‚ shoots & leaves‚" which is a verb‚ verb‚ and verb. The way it should have been written is "eats shoots and leaves‚" which is a verb‚ noun‚ and noun. The different punctuation changes the meaning of the phrase. Truss divides the book into a several chapters to emphasize
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Gun ControlRichard MooreEnglish Composition IIJudi Reed13 April 1995 Thesis Statement: Society benefits from firearms in the hands of responsible citizens. Attempts to keep firearms away from these citizens do more harm than good. Outline I. Introduction II. Political A. Legislation 1. Rights 2. Restrictions 3. Prejudice B. Crime prevention 1. Effects on criminals 2. Effects on crime victims III. Practical A. Hunting B. Competition IV. Personal A. Recreation
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teen brains. Teenagers‚ children and sometimes even adults go to simulated violence for an escape route‚ something to distract them from the problems they have going on at home‚ at work‚ or any other stress inducing areas. According to “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out”‚ written by Guy Martin in 2009‚ throughout the high school game‚ “Killer”‚ students develop a sense of survival and many important skills. Such as‚ one teammate had used a caller I.D. to contact the target’s landlines‚ “The call had been engineered
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Although people say that gun control would reduce crime rate‚ gun control should not be heavily enforced because it is against the Second amendment; it would take away the ability to shoot recreationally‚ and it would not allow people to effectively protect themselves. Based on data from a 2000 study‚ US civilians used firearms to protect themselves and others around 989‚883 times a year. As Thomas Jefferson once said - “The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they
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The debate over whether red light cameras are effective or not can cause a great divide among any group of people. Proponents of the cameras say that they are effective in reducing accidents and those against them are adamant that they are only in place to increase revenues for local law enforcement. Red light cameras are cameras that are placed at intersections and connected to traffic signals. The camera is triggered by any vehicle entering the intersection above a certain speed and after
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The question of body cameras for police officers has historically been a pressing issue in America‚ but after the recent incidents it is being taken into serious consideration. Body Cameras should be provided for all law enforcement personnel so that citizens can get a clear understanding of how they are implementing their force onto the citizens of United States. A lot of evidence and claims have been brought up by citizens saying that police officers have taken wrong actions while in pursuit of
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Increasing Sales Turnover of Mirrorless Cameras (ILC) in Hong Kong at Sony Corporation of Hong Kong Limited Introduction Client Requirement Mirrorless cameras (ILC) were first introduced in the market in 2008 and Sony follows the trend then launched NEX series mirrorless cameras in May 2010. There are rapid growths in the demand of mirrorless cameras and it is believed that it will be the main products focus in the digital imaging industry. In view of this‚ Sony wants to gains as much as market
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Video Security System? Cameras on a modern analog CCTV system send their video over co-axil cabling back to a digital video recorder (DVR). Most modern DVRs are a network device‚ and as such can be accessed remotely from the LAN‚ or with the proper configuration‚ from across a WAN or the internet. Video is kept on hard drives‚ typically on a FIFO basis so there is always a rolling video archive of the past X number of days. What is an IP Video Security System? IP video cameras broadcast their video
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